Just three singles in and Raven Numan is making a big impression. A beguiling black-heart of creativity, the 20-year-old flavours her dark wave roots with modernist alt-pop embellishments, while her lyrics bravely cut open her vulnerabilities for the world to see. The next stage of her evolution is now underway as she shares the new single ‘Overwhelming’.

Raven casts an icy demeanour in ‘Overwhelming’, with juddering beats, grinding industrial sonics and waves of engagingly unconventional vocal elements taking us deeper into her world. It’s a sweetly sinister cocktail that enshrouds lyrics which explore her visceral reaction to the noise around her – most literally and metaphorically – as her BPD triggers a dissociative state.

Raven says, “‘Overwhelming’ is somewhat self-explanatory, it’s about being overwhelmed with everyone and everything, it’s also about growing up with a famous parent and how it’s affected me personally. My parents are incredible, they’ve done absolutely everything and more for me and I love them endlessly but a big part of their job is going on tour for long periods of time and that has quite obviously affected me negatively.

“The song is partially about that; how my parents going on tour as a child caused me to develop quite a lot of issues. It caused me to develop borderline personality disorder which involves the constant fear of being abandoned, severe mood swings, anxiety and it has also caused extreme social anxiety. The loudness of this lifestyle, the shows, my dad’s fame, the unpredictability, the fans, the unnecessary hate all because I was born caused so much stress and it was a lot for me to handle. It’s about totally shutting down and disassociating because everything was very overwhelming.”

The pulsating paranoia and anxieties of the song are heightened by the accompanying video , which was directed by Jackson Ducasse (Dua Lipa, Imagine Dragons). Captured in a crimson palette a blonde-haired Raven performs with searing intensity, her angst growing as she’s followed by a gathering of partially hidden people – but are her fears grounded in reality, or is her mind twisting her surroundings into something far more sinister than they really are?